J&Ok Meeting Election: AAP leaders like Sanjay Singh campaigned for Mehraj Malik.
New Delhi:
The Aam Aadmi Celebration’s Mehraj Malik – who handed his occasion a primary ever election win in Jammu and Kashmir, in native physique polls in December 2020 – is now main the race for the Doda legislative seat, as votes are being counted for the primary Meeting election within the former state in a decade.
In response to Election Fee information at 1.30 pm the AAP candidate was almost 5,000 votes forward of the BJP’s Gajay Singh Rana and main the Nationwide Convention’s Khalid Najib Suharwardy by almost 10,000. Twelve of 13 rounds of counting have been accomplished, in accordance with the ballot panel.
The Doda seat was received by the BJP’s Shakti Raj within the 2014 election, however has historically flipped between the Nationwide Convention and the Congress because the first ballot in 1962.
The AAP’s (nearly) success in J&Ok comes as a little bit of a shock to many, significantly because it has been blanked in Haryana – occasion boss Arvind Kejriwal’s dwelling state. Ought to the Haryana pattern maintain it will likely be a significant setback for Mr Kejriwal, significantly because the Delhi election is barely 4 months away.
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The AAP’s Haryana loss can also be key given it couldn’t agree a seat-share with the Congress, with which it’s allied – beneath the INDIA bloc umbrella – on the nationwide stage.
The AAP and Congress had all however reached an settlement however state leaders from both facet vetoed a deal requested for by Rahul Gandhi, who has typically spoken of the necessity for the opposition to face united.
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Again in J&Ok, Mr Malik is main in a seat and area that has been roiled by terror assaults over the previous a number of months; as just lately as August, in truth, an Military Captain was killed in motion in an encounter with terrorists within the Assar space of the district. A civilian was additionally injured. Safety forces additionally recovered a United States-made assault rifle and three blood-soaked rucksacks with tools and logistics.
In reality, in July J&Ok Police launched a significant crackdown on entrenched terror networks after a lethal encounter in Doda through which 4 Military personnel, together with one other officer, have been killed in motion.
READ | Main Crackdown In opposition to Terror Community After Doda Encounter
Doda was additionally the place Prime Minister Narendra Modi started the BJP’s Jammu and Kashmir election marketing campaign; his go to final month was the primary by a sitting Prime Minister in over 4 a long time.
Multi-tier safety was deployed throughout Doda and Kishtwar in preparation for Mr Modi’s go to.
The AAP chief’s good exhibiting thus far can also be an outlier in an election that has, thus far, been dominated by the Nationwide Convention-Congress alliance, which is main in over 50 of the previous state’s 90 Meeting seats. The BJP – which has by no means dominated J&Ok by itself – is trailing with 27 leads.
Exit polls had given the Congress-NC alliance a slight edge. An mixture of three signifies the Congress-NC will win 43 seats and the BJP 26, with the PDP successful between 4 and 12.
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